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William Fink
Professor and Curator
Director of the Museum of Zoology
Ph.D., George Washington University, 1976
U-M affiliation(s)
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Museum of Zoology
Contact information
University of Michigan
1051A Museums Bldg.
1109 Geddes Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079
Phone: (734) 764-9928
Fax: (734) 763-4080
Email: wfink@umich.edu
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Fields of study
Phylogenetics and ichthyology
Academic background
Dr. Fink received his PhD from George Washington University in 1976; his dissertation on deep-sea stomiiform fishes was directed by Dr. Stanley Weitzman of the Smithsonian Institution. He then joined the faculty of Harvard University where he was also curator of fishes in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. At the Univesrity of Michigan he is Professor of Biology and Curator of Fishes in the Museum of Zoology. Dr. Fink is a past President of the Society of Systematic Biologists, former Editor of Copeia, Founding Fellow of the Hennig Society, and was awarded the LS&A Excellence in Education Award in 1999.
Graduate students
Jeremy Wright
Fink home page
Fish Division, U-M Museum of Zoology
News
Reappointment announced
The Dean and the Executive Committee of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts approved the reappointment of Professor William L. Fink as director of the Museum of Zoology.
Fink’s three-year term is effective July 1, 2008 – June 31, 2011. He joined EEB’s faculty as an assistant professor and an assistant curator in 1982 and was promoted through the ranks to professor and curator in 1996. His research interests include biology and systematics of fishes, particularly Neotropical species, higher classification, and theory of systematics and biogeography.
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